Perpetuos

'Este libro suena: mientras navega por las aguas del río Magdalena, va recogiendo los cantares de la gente y los sones de las guitarras, las tamboras y los acordeones. En el altar de la música celebran su comunión las palabras y las imágenes. Estos textos y estas fotos de certera belleza eligen, así, la mejor manera de contar las desventuras de una región castigada por la pobreza, que en la música encuentra rescate y redención.' Eduardo Galeano.Incluye CD.

"Follows a fictional Sheffield band from Mexico, in the style of legendary magazine 'The Face' ... The context of the event [Art Sheffield 05] was 'Spectator T', a fictitious art goer without exposure to contemporary aesthetics, and the idea was to present artworks that would challenge this person's preconceived ideas about art. Thus, Toledo created a cover band that sang songs by local Sheffield groups, and named it after the cult Sheffield nightclub, The Limit, which closed in 1992. The band was created in Mexico ... where it played one local concert, then came to Sheffield, where it played ...

The largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once. Looking through Cristobal von Rothkirk's photographic eye, here is all of Bogota-the sophisticated Hispanic city, the South American captial, the complex of urban cultures tattooed with signs of international pop culture. In this book is both a city being reshaped by our times as well as a timeless city with 500-year-old customs and festivals. Von Rothkirk sees the contrasts that show up at street level but even the...

A photography book introducing the work of Fernando Prats from the awarded album formas y formas, winner of the first photographic contest by Lulu.com and Foto DNG. Some of these images are part of the Exhibition Ways and shapes but no whales, Fernando Prats at ****contrasted gallery. En el mundo de fernando prats, las epopeyas definen esbozos, gelidos trazos, instantes febriles cuyas voces anuncian aquellas historias de la vida cotidiana avaladas por los nuevos aprendizajes. La abstraccion adquiere, entonces, formas insolentes; palpables mientras el ojo se les amalgama. Porque el cuerpo y la ...